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CarverI drove across the continent to escape memories of death, accusations, and a crashed career. I took refuge in the small town of Mission City, British Columbia. I'm content here with my good job and two rescue dogs, until the day I bump into an old friend. Styx is an echo of the tragedy I'm...

A Cajun hockey center and a Russian winger forced into co-parenting bonded kittens on an NHL expansion team. Two years ago, Bastian Fontenot and Tikhon Volkov destroyed each other in a playoff handshake line. The words were ugly. The damage was permanent. Now they're both on the Atlanta Firebirds, an expansion team built from castoffs and fresh starts, and they can't be in the same room without the temperature dropping.

Twenty-five years ago, Hanson Swaim broke my heart and left Forestville without looking back. I stayed. I built a life, a brewery, a reputation as the town’s most reliably single bachelor. I told myself I was over him. I told myself I deserved more than a man who would always stay in the closet. I told myself a lot of things. Now I’m forty-six, boarding a gay cruise with a rolling suitcase and what’s left of my optimism —and there he is, looking exactly like the boy who walked away from me, except older and more tired. He’s out now. He’s single.

Join the men of Champion Security as they settle into the town of Licking Thicket, Tennessee… and accidentally stumble into a whole heap of trouble. From accidentally hijacking a cartel overlord’s plane, to posing as fake-fiances to plan a wedding and solve a crime, to hacking the world’s silliest video game, the Champion Security series is packed with laugh-out-loud humor, steamy connections made under pressure, and plenty of delicious, schmoopy love.

I’ve been in love with Trace Bishop half my life… And I’ve been hiding it just as long. He’s my father’s best friend. The man who tracked me down and kept me safe my entire childhood… The man who looked me in the eyes six years ago and said we were impossible. So I poured my longing into love songs. Songs no one knows are about Trace. I shared them with the world under a secret identity and won a Grammy. Just another thing to hide. Then one stupid kiss changes everything. Trace can’t want me back. It would cost him his friends, his family, and the life he’s built.

When Victor meets Orsen Riggs, a scruffy bear shifter, and little Gus, an orphaned red panda cub, his orderly, structured world becomes messy and chaotic. All the things he once held true suddenly don’t make sense. Asked to help the Smith pack navigate the difficult world of shifter politics, Victor realizes he might not know himself as well as he thought. Magic is in the air, and it’s making him long for things he never wanted before. But duty comes before all else, even at a price Victor no longer wants to pay.

Sometimes love is worth the danger. Atlas The sins of my past have chased me all my life, and now they're colliding with the one thing I want the most. Calvin is perfect. From the moment I saw him, I felt drawn to him—to his light, his smile, his warmth. We both have secrets, and deadly people...

Ryan "Ash" Asher is the sunshine center who makes every locker room warmer just by showing up. Signed to the Atlanta Firebirds after a divorce he's still pretending didn't break him, he's chasing a fresh start. New city. New team. New ice. He's fine. But from the first phone call with his co-captain, something he can't explain takes hold. Ash has never wanted a man before, and Antero Ikonen is unraveling everything he thought he knew about himself.

Former marine Percy “Champ” Champion has never encountered a problem he can’t handle. Flying bullets? Daring jungle rescues? Building Champion Security from the ground up? Making people seriously regret using his hated first name? No problem. He’s gotten the job done without a hitch each and every time. But it turns out there are some situations Champ can’t handle alone, like going undercover as a wedding planner to retrieve some missing cartel data in time to avert an international crisis.

Failing to tell him that my family is a bunch of professional thieves? Small oversight. I left the Callahan family business years ago. These days I’m a law-abiding citizen. A photographer who takes nothing but pictures. A man who’s learned not to get greedy for anything… or anyone. But my family hasn’t gotten that memo, so I expect my week at family camp to be filled with guilt-trippy attempts to lure me back into the fold. Until Holden Axford comes along… and everything goes axe backwards.

Right as Raine features a rookie NFL player and his unexpectedly adorable live-in chef. The only problem? That chef happens to be the coach's son. And that's a personal foul.

That's it. My neighbor has to die. There's no other way around it. The man must be killed—and I'll even find a way to do it gently, but this cannot go on. Okay, maybe I'm a bit dramatic, but living next to my brother's best friend who decided to befriend the crows that spend all week spreading...

Antero "Avi" Ikonen gave Philadelphia seven years of elite hockey, quiet leadership, and a closet he never let anyone open. They repaid him by leaving him unprotected in the expansion draft and letting him find out from a beat reporter at seven in the morning. Now he's in Atlanta, building a team from scratch in a facility that still smells like paint, performing control so well that even his new agent can't see through it. He doesn't need anyone. He doesn't trust anyone. And he's definitely not thinking about the too-warm center who keeps texting at midnight and making him almost smile.

Follow Blue Marian as he accidentally kisses a random stranger in a bar one night and kicks off a series of events at a big family wedding that throws everything into question. Little does he know the stranger would turn out to be his new brother-in-law who owns the vineyard in Napa where the wedding is being held. When Tristan Alexander decides to kiss the sweet man at the bar to make his ex jealous, he has no idea it will challenge everything he ever knew about himself. Borrowing Blue is the award-winning debut novel that opens the worldwide bestselling Made Marian series.

I should never have approached Remington's car. I knew he was dangerous, but he needed help, and I was sure he could pay well for it. When he offers me an astronomical sum to stay with him for two weeks, I can't say no. Even then, I know when our time is up, I'll wish we had forever. Remington cares for me like no man ever has, and I can’t help falling for him. But how could a crime boss be my Prince Charming or give me the fairytale happily-ever-after I’ve always dreamed of?

Felix - Things I expect to find at Gadleigh Castle: rare stained glass, the subject of my dissertation; peace and quiet, to finish said dissertation; an escape from the paparazzi. Things I don’t expect to find: a hidden door leading to a secret room; the most gorgeous man I’ve ever set eyes on; love. Lio - Things I know are expected of me in life: I will become the King of Liorland; I will marry a nice woman; I will provide heirs to my family’s monarchy. Reasons that might be difficult: I’m gay; I’m falling in love with Felix; He has no idea I’m royal.

Welcome to Little Pippin Hollow, Vermont! Home of apple orchards, nosy neighbors, the occasional murder cow… and a whole bunch of Sundays! This collection contains three full length novels.

Kane Delancey is a special agent with the ATF and as such, he puts his life on the line every day. He’s dated a lot of women but the right one just hasn’t come along. Luca Price is a humble manager for a popular chain of jewelry stores. Young and openly gay, Luca spends his nights in clubs having a ball with friends, without a care in the world.

The last two and a half years have been all about living life to the fullest, enjoying my time at college, the glory years and all that, but that doesn’t mean I’m a jerk. I’ve always considered myself to be a decent person, but a few conversations with my new debate partner, Porter Johnson, are enough for me to realize how self-centered I’ve been. I like who I am around him, and I’m determined to show him I’m not as bad as he assumed I was, that maybe we could even be friends.

Renowned cardiologist Carter Rogers is used to having things under control. His life, his prestigious reputation, his career, his future.